FAQ: List of Polls Alphabetical Within Category

I would appreciate feedback on whether this is a useful breakdown of live polls. Someone reviewing the list of polls on my blog suggested a list of polls by category. This is my attempt to address that suggestion.

This is my initial cut. I've been able to categorize about half of the polls. Most of the polls are not categorized (zxNoCategory).I would appreciate suggestions for categories using short keywords as shown below.

Something I'd love, that maybe you'd consider (or maybe there a way to do it now I just don't know about?) is being able to go to the archive list and look for polls that ran on specific days. Or at least the month and year they ran? I want to know how long ago a poll when live.

Is there a way to make a List of Lists ?I found other Lists I would like to list with one of My ListsI do not want to copy the contents of other persons' list after they did all the workAdd by List number "ls000000000"

All IMDb polls are based upon IMDb lists. To find the list upon which a poll is based, replace "poll" with with "list" in a poll URL. If you receive a 404 (page not found) error, the author of the poll deleted the list. If the list is deleted, the poll cannot be updated.

I'm trying to think of a way to categorize what, right now, I can only describe as creative, often humorous, out-of-the-box, often-Elmo-type polls. For instance, off the top of my head, I'm thinking of his "why did the chicken cross the road?" or my "Stewie Asks Hannibal Lecter for Tips..." but there have been many more.

DC will probably have to provide guidance on the distinction, if any. I believe that IMDb-India-Spotlight are polls that have been featured on Indian Spotlight (https://www.imdb.com/india/), whereas Indian polls are polls related to India that have not been featured on Indian Spotlight.Even if there is a distinction, there may not be enough Indian polls to break them out separately.

Or a poll like this: https://www.imdb.com/poll/1hpEZvhXPtI/this poll is in Actor category, not in IMDb poll board category, so if one is looking at IMDb poll board category, they might miss this poll

In this case, people maybe have to think more than one category if they're looking for a complete list of poll.

Could be better if you put polls with overlapping category in both (or more) category? But It will make the list more complicated and long. I don't know, just some thoughts. Perhaps you have better idea?

This is definitely a work in progress and there are probably quite a few polls that I've placed in the wrong category.

I fully agree that polls can fall into multiple categories. I hope to eventually allow for multiple categories. Unfortunately, multiple categories would complicate updating the list and would make a very long list even longer.

One possible solution would be to assign a poll to a primary category and include a note that the poll also falls into other categories.

Productioncompany: There are categories for the big ones like Disney, but there are polls about the small ones, they all can be here and maybe the already existing categories could be subcategories of this one.

Costume: For polls about the costume design part of films. Currently I have only one poll, but perhaps there can be more about different parts of movie making and they all could be added to a wider category (polls about cinematography, make-up, production design etc)

A new batch of recently categorized polls for you. I checked the full list of closed polls, but most of them are not actually closed, so they don't belong there. I think only two of those that are actually open should be already closed.

Thanks for the feedback. I changed the categories for the polls as you suggested. I will double check the remaining polls that are marked closed to make certain they are actually closed. It's possible that when IMDb staff removed polls based on character lists they re-opened closed polls as a side effect.

I retained the category Razzie and added the BadFilms. The Razzies is a major award ceremony; I believe it deserves a category. Other polls may fall into the BadFilms category.

I will provide links to polls that seem to fit these categories as soon as I have a bit more time. I'm still searching for words that could be used to categorize some of the more out-of-the-box polls. Again, this is a great thing you're doing.

I have been unable to keep working on helping you with this as I have used my time to work on my travel project and future business, Viajeros en Ruta, but I'll soon restart on categorizing those thousands of pending polls.

By the way Dan, I have never asked if you preffer me to give you my feedback in another format, or if its allright for me to post the links as I've been doing, is something else is easier for you let me know.

The format you are using for the polls is great. It allows me to view the polls then update the list. I have my list indexed both by title and link to the poll, so its simple to find each of the polls.

I added all of your suggestions. In most cases, what you suggested was absolutely obvious; I remember thinking why didn't I see that for many of the polls.

https://www.imdb.com/poll/EO2C408AITY/ (its about influential women that deserva a place in a dollar bill, but since its her role in history what's taken in consideration then I think this is its place, it probably should be closed by now).

https://www.imdb.com/poll/lSMt9QwmOsc/ (This was a very discused poll when it was published by the IMDb editors without even writing a question. It is the list of favorite movies of someone at IMDb staff so I think this is the only place were it can fit).